Computer Support

Policies and Changes

Department Computing Policies
General Information on Policies, which all users must comply with. Also information on changes in progress or past changes.

General

Statistics Computer Support Personnel

OSU Resources
OSU Accounts, Proxies

Services

Webmail

Electronic Mail

Host and Service Names

How to Signout the Projector / Laptop

Information for Presenters / How to Use a Projector

Documentation

Web Pages

Windows

Programming / Compute Jobs

Statistics Packages

Brief Description of Facilities

The Department of Statistics computing facilities are mostly independent of the University's due to the specialized nature of our research. In addition, the Department can access various resources at the Ohio Supercomputer Center for more compute intensive jobs.

The Department supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows, and MacOS. There are three full time computing staff to assist in the research and teaching computing needs.

Centrally, the Department maintains a linux login server, as well as four linux machines for long compute jobs. In addition many faculty have workstations that are available for remote general compute as well. We also maintain an e-mail server, and web server, including database access and webmail.

For graduate students, the Department has a graduate student computing lab in Cockins Hall with nineteen Windows XP workstations, two linux workstations, and an iMac G5. There is access to color and monochrome printing.

Each grad student office has one Windows XP workstation. For the new PhD and MAS students there may be several students in a large office with one computer, however our senior students and research assistants share two person offices with one computer in each office.